Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WAsHINGToN NOTES.

summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.
b. Il. HARRIS. Third Assistant Postmas
ter General, has discovered an old law which
forbids persons advertising their bushes:
on envelopes sent through the mail.
The fifteenth annual meeting Of the Car
rage Builders National Association begar
at Washington on the 18th. Over 100 dele
gates were present. President Studebaker
OF South Bend, Ind, called the meeting tC
order
THE annual report of Caleb W. West
Governor Of Utah Territory. estimates the
population OF the Territory at nearly 2O0, OOC
and the assessed taxable valuation of prop
erty at $35, 1855, S65.
Z. MEYER ZULICK, Governor Of Arizona,
in his annual report estimates the popula-
ton Of the Territory at 10000, an increase
OF nearly $1,000 over the census estimates
OF $780, The aggregate assessed valuation
on the taxable property for the present year
is 63l3, 500 an Increase of nearly So, OOO, OOO
over 1885,
The Japanese Minister entertained at a
farewell banquet in Washington on the
18th Secretaries Bayard, Lamar and Fair
child, the Justices of the Supreme Court
and other distinguished persons.
CIvIL-SERvICE COMMISSIONER EDGERToN
has again expressed himself as opposed to
the views of Commissioner Oberly in the
enforcement of the Civil-Service law.
RUsTEM EFFENDI, Secretary of the Turk
ish Legation, died recently in Washington.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has recommended
that the President be requested to issue an
executive proclamation warning all per-
sons, whether claiming to act as officers of
Greer County, Texas, or otherwise, against
selling or attempting to sell any of the lands
Off ha 81 a IN,
the southwestern part of the Indian Terri
tory, or exercising any authority over them.
THE EAST.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, editor of the Chris
Adn Union, has been chosen temporary pas
tor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
HEAVY fires are reported in the timber
along the northern ridge of the Blue mount
aims in Pennsylvania
AN unfinished Roman Catholic school
building on East One Hundred and Fiji
teenth street, New York, fell recently, kill
ing five workmen and wounding quite a
number of persons, including Rev. A. E.
Kerner, priest of the parish.
A MAGNIFICENT bronze equestrian statue
of General Meade has been unveiled in
Paramount Park, Philadelphia.
JOHN HENRY and HENRY E. BOWEN, whole
sale druggists of New York City, have
made an assignment with unknown liabilI-
ties. They failed in 1878 with 5000, 200 liza
bilities.
THE Kent and Lakeview Hotels, with q
number OF cottages at Lakeview, near
jamestown, N. Y, were destroyed by fire
the other morning. The loss amounted to
S125, 900.
The schooner Herman Babson has ar
rived at Gloucester, Mass, from the Grand
Banks. Captain Lawson reports that on
September 80 he fell in with the French
fishing sloop ST. Pierre waterlogged. He
boarded her and found ten men drowned in
the cabin.
PASTOR MILLEN, Methodist, and Pastor
Decker, Congregationalist, both of Brook
lyn, N. Y, have been suspended for i'm
morality.
The fast train west on the Pennsylvania
railroad, at Steers crossing, near Ronk's
Station, Pa, recently, struck team con-
tanning Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs. Bar
bara Steltzfus, middle-aged ladies. Both
were instantly killed, as was also the horse.
The coal miners of the Monongahela and
Youghiogheny valleys, Pennsylvania, have
asked for an advance in wages. 1t will be
submitted to arbitrator.
The Park Mount Manufacturing Com
pany's cotton and wooden mill at Lenni,
Pa, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, $4,000.
THE fishing schooner E. H. Horton ar
rived at Provincetown, Mass, recently,
with Captain Atwood and two men and a
boy, the crew of the lobster sloop Pennsyl-
vania, of Plymouth. The Pennsylvania
when off Harding ledge suddenly sprang a
leak and sank In five minutes.
THE fishing schooner Rebecca Nickerson,
of Provincetown Mass, has not been heard
from since the great gale of September 3.
Her crew numbered nineteen.
THE American Gaslght Associations an
nual convention began in New York on the
10Th with 200 gas manufacturers in attend
ance-
By a decision rendered by a master in
chancerv in Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, the
Vanderbilts have secured full control of the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie road once more.
SUIT has been instituted against Jay
Gould and Russell Sage by the representa-
tives of the holders of consolidated bonds
of the Kansas Pacific railway for breach OF
trust and frand. The suit grew out of the
revelations recently made before the Pa
cific Investigating Commission.
NATURAL gas exploded at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th, demolishing the Hotel AL
bemarle and the Bijou Theater- Eight
persons were seriously injured, two IA
tally.
GOVERNOR SAWYER, of New Hampshire,
has vetoed the Hazen, Boston Il Maine
Railroad bill. The Governor says that.
uPSIA VIC AhOt AuoIC uiCI las
of the measure, he is moved to object to the
bill for the reason that corrupt methods
have been extensively used for the purpose
OF promoting its passage.
WIILdAM WALKER, importer of dress
trimmings, Nesv Work City, has made an
assignment with sl25g00 liabilities and
$100, 900 assets.
ASSISTANT GENERAL TICKET AGENT O. H
McCARTG, OF the Union Pacific railway, has
been appointed superintendent of the rate
Gepartnnent of tho Eastern Trunk Line Pas
senser Association
A PACKAGE exploded in the Adams tx
. press Company's ofice on Court street
Boston, recently, slightly injuring Henry
T. Sawyer. q xEarehousemaH, and breaking
considerable glass in the ofice- No trace oil
the package was left, and who sent 1t was
unknown.